My skin was itching by this point. How dare she lay them on the counter instead of handing them to me directly? To avoid further incident, I snatched them from the counter, and we took our luggage, and keys and walked to the elevator letting people off.
I didn’t speak another word until we were on the elevator. “She didn’t like that you were black.”
“Huh?”
“She gave us looks. I didn’t appreciate it. I will bring the roof down on this place.”
“I thought her issue was that we were Americans,” Diamond touched my shoulder. “Thierry, there’s always going to be someone ignorant in the world. No matter if we’re American or if I’m a black woman in a man’s world. I know my power.”
I leaned over and kissed her cheek. Moments later, the ding of the elevator signaled that we had reached our floor. The King’s suite was the only room on this floor. It would just be the two of us.
The green and red carpet beneath our feet felt plush as we walked towards our door. Fumbling with the key card, we finally got inside. The King’s Suite was exactly what one might expect. A skyline view of Rome, and everything was decorated in gold to match. Diamond immediately went to the window to peer out after dropping her luggage.
“Now this is what I call a room,” she gave a small laugh.
“Yes, it’s amazing. Told Erin to make sure that we had something grand. Something befitting my Donna,” my gaze wandered over Diamond’s ass.
We’d played around so much last night. Fucked each other within an inch of our lives and she’d almost let me put it in her ass. I was getting hard at the thought.
Eventually, I thought. I needed to warm her up even more.
“Before we go to this nursing home, I have somewhere else I want to take you,” I replied.
Diamond turned at that, her brows raised. “What are you planning Thierry?”
“Mrs. Scarpetta you have to stop being so curious. Just go with it.”
“Last time I really went with the flow,” I watched her hand make wavy motions. “You went home to New York, and we all thought you were dead.”
I frowned. “Damn…’
“Right?” she gave a small laugh.
Coming in close, I pulled her chin up and dropped a kiss on her plum lips. “This is a good surprise. I promise.”
“Okay,” she kissed me back.
We lingered like that for only a few moments before we made love two more times. Then we took a shower together and fucked in the shower again before we got out. By the time we finally left the hotel room, it was almost seven thirty. We had both very carefully dressed in black.
Clearly there was no way in hell we could walk in through the front door of this nursing home. We knew that Alistair had a guard on his grandmother, and we knew that that guard was extremely lax in his duties. Every night, he went to entertain one of the nurses for nearly an hour and thirty minutes starting at 10 oclock and their fuck session lasted until 11 o’clock.
Perfection.
It was literal perfection.
Taking Diamond’s hand as we weaved through the traffic of Rome carefully, she gave me a look.
“Stop, you’re going to make me think you love me.”
I kept my eyes on the road and reading signs. The place I was headed to wasn’t very far away. The traffic in Rome was horrible. I didn’t know which was worse. Traffic in Atlanta, New York or Rome.
“Tesoro, you know that I hold a certain affection for you. After all, my soul belongs to you.”
She gave a squeal. “I did give you theGAWK GAWK 3000last night, huh?”
“You did indeed, wife, you did indeed.”
She laughed again, as I aggressively maneuvered us into a parking spot. The Porsche slid into the spot like butter as I hit the brakes and stopped our movements. When I got home, I was for sure going to a nearby dealership.
